New World's Oldest Human Skeleton Found in Mexico

5/15/2014 7:18PM

Scientists have found what they believe is the oldest nearly complete, genetically intact human skeleton in the Americas within a flooded cave in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. (Photo: Paul Nicklen/National Geographic)

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